Nell Blaine

Born 1922 Richmond, Virginia
Died 1996 New York City, New York

Education

1952-53
New School for Social Research

1945
Etching and engraving at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter

1942-44
Studied with Hans Hofmann in New York, 1942-44

1939-42
Richmond School of Art (R.P.I) now Virginia Commonwealth University

Memberships

1948-49
Secretary/Coordinator of Jane Street Gallery

1945-49
Member of Jane Street Group, New York

1944-57
Member of American Abstract Artists, New York

Select Solo Exhibitions

2012
Nell Blaine: A Glowing Order, Paintings and Watercolors, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

2007
Nell Blaine: Image and Abstraction, Paintings and Drawings 1944-1959, Tibor de Nagy Gallery,New York

2004
Nell Blaine: Selected Works,Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

2003
Artist in the World: Work from the 1950s, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Nell Blaine: Abstract Paintings and Works on Paper, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
Nell Blaine/ Theresa Pollak, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA

2002
Nell Blaine: Bouquets, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

2001
Nell Blaine: The Abstract Work, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

1998
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

1996
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

1995
Fischbach Gallery, New York
Nell Blaine, Selections from the Arthur W. Cohen Collection, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Surrounded by Light, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO

1994
Selected Works, at the presentation of limited edition lithograph published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York

1993
Fischbach Gallery, New York

1991
Fischbach Gallery, New York

1989
Fischbach Gallery, New York

1987
Fischbach Gallery, New York

1985
Fischbach Gallery, New York
Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
Works from Richmond Collections, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

1983
Fischbach Gallery, New York

1982
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
Wyckoff Gallery, Wyckoff, NJ

1981
Fischbach Gallery, New York
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

1979
Fischbach Gallery , New York
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Hull Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1977
Stagecoach House Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Watson/de Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX

1976
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1973
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Works 1956-72,  University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Webb & Parsons Gallery, Bedford Village, NY
Nell Blaine Works: 1955-73, traveling retrospective organized by Edward Bryant, Caps and Ganys, Picker Gallery,
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Myers Fine Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y.
Plattsburgh,NY; Wells College, Aurora, NY; University Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y. Albany, NY;and Niagara Arts

1972
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1970
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1968
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1966
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1963
Longwood College, Farmville, VA
Zabriskie Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1962
Bliss Gallery, Richmond, VA
XX Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA

1961
Steward Rickard Gallery, San Ant onio, TX
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

1960
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1958
State University Teachers College, New Paltz, NY
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1956
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1955
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

1954
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

1953
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

1949
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

1948
Jane Street Gallery, New York

1947
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

1945
Jane Street Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013
Interior: Curated by Barry Rosen, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

2011
Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painters & Poets, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

2010
American Still Life: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

2009
Watercurrents – Water, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Fra Unuhusi til Attunda straetis (From Unuhus to Eighth Street), Reykjavik Art Museum , Iceland

2008
Works on Paper, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA.
Painting in the Park, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York.

2007
A Woman’s Eye: Selected Works by 20th Century American Women Artists, The Lighthouse Center for the Arts,
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

2006
Natural Selection, Landscape Print Portfolio from Center Street Studio, Joel and Linda Harnett Print Study Center,
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA

2004
Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Anne Gary Powell Art Gallery Collection, Sweet Briar College, VA

2003
Working from Nature, Marymount College, Fordham University, Tarrytown, NY
Women of the Academy, National Academy of Design, New York

2001-02
The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints, traveling from the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,
Massachusetts, to the Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, the Parrish Art Museum,
Southampton, New York, and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Nothwestern University, Evanston, IL

2000
Reconfiguring the New York School, Center for Figurative Painting, New York, NY

1999
The Legacy of Hans Hofmann: Selections by Painters from the Hofmann School, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
Watercolors, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York

1998
Shattering the Southern Stereotype: Jack Beal, Nell Blaine, Dorothy Gillespie, Sally Mann and Cy Twombly, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA

1997
American Art Today: The Garden, Art, Museum, Florida International University, Miami , FL (exhibition dedicated to the memory of Nell Blaine)
Art and Friendship: Selections from the Roland F. Pease Collection, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; exhibition and collection acquired by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1998
Art of This Century: The Women, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY “The Figure,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Gloucester Images: Print Retrospective, Wenniger Gallery, Rockport, MA

1996
Cornucopia, Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT
Readers: 20th-Century Prints, Drawings, and Photographs of People Reading, from the Collection of Donald Oresman, Grolier Club, New York
Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NMM, and tour
Selections from the Caroline L. Goldsmith Collection, The Century Association, New York
Thresholds, Reflections, Transformations,Gallery at Kohn, Pederson, Fox, New York (sponsored by the Organization o fIndependent Artists)
Tradition – American Realism: Past and Present, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Women in the Visual Arts,” Hollins College, Roanoke, VA

1995
Nothing Overlooked: Women Painting Still Life, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Art Show, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York
Contemporary Virginia Realism, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Not hing Overlooked: Women Painting Still Life, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994
Still Life, Fischbach Gallery, New York
A Flower Show, Washington Art Association, Washington, CT
Paintings from the Commerce Bancshares Collection, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL
Sun and Sea, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Landscape Works by Women Artists: Selections from the William & Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection, Part Three, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
46th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1993
Seven over Seventy, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
The Art Show, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York
Contemporary Realist Watercolors, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
168th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Abstracted Reality, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
The League at the Cape, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA

1992
The Art Show, Fourth Annual Exhibition, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York
Prints by Contemporary Women Artists, Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV
167th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York

1991
American Women Artists: The 20th Century, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN;traveled to Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY
The Art Show, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York
165th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
The Painterly Landscape, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Realist Watercolors, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; curated by John Arthur
Twentieth Century Long Island Painting, The Art Museum at Stony Brook, NY
The Intimate Eye, Selections from the Jack Blanton Collection, McGraw-Page Library,Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
The Common Wealth: Twentieth Century American Masterpieces from Virginia Collections, Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA
A Cape Ann Perspective, Vault Gallery, The Boston Company, Boston, MA
A Salute to Women, Artists’ Postcards and Albums from the International Festivals in Copenhagen and Nairobi,
The National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center, Washington, D.C.

1990
The Hudson River, Broadway Mall Center, New York
Selected Prints from the Center Street Studio Collection, LeSaffre Wistein Gallery, Boston, MA
Paintings from the Parrish Art Museum Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to benefit the Henry Street Settlement, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York
The Food Show, Grad Central Galleries, Inc., New York
The Scarf, exhibition and auction to benefit DIFFA, Bergdorf Goodman, New York
Art for Art’s Sake – Four Painters, Closing exhibition, Ingber Gallery, New York

1989
Intimate Landscapes, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York
163rd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Nature in Art, One Penn Plaza, New York
Aspects of Light, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

1987
Hans Hofmann and His Legacy, Lever/ Meyerson Galleries, Ltd., New York
Cape Ann Past and Present: A Personal View,” Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
162nd Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York
A Just Temper Between Propensities,” The Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charottesville, VA

1986
“The Painterly Landscape,” C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“Landscape, Seascape, Citiscape 1960-1985,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, and the New York Academy of Art, New York
“A Few ‘Remarques’ on the Survival of Drawing,” The Drawing Society, New York
“7th Annual Exhibition,” Cooper Union School of Art, Women’s Caucus for Art, New York American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
“Nell Blaine Sketchbook and Prints, and Exhibition,” Mezzanine Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “Arrangements in Color and Shape,” C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“Nature Morte,” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

1984
“Modern Masters of Classical Realism,” Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI “Images on Paper,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
“Purchase Exhibition,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
“American Realism,” William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1983
“American Women Artists, Part I: 20th Century Pioneers,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York “New Realism: Behind the Scenes,” College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
“159th Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York
“Art and Friendship, A Tribute to Farifield Porter,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY “Director’s Choice,” Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA
“Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Tradition,” Brooklyn Museum, New York
“Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Award,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York “The Sp irit of the Coast,” Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
“The First Eight Years,” Artists’ Choice Museum, New York

1982
“Realist Watercolors,” Florida International University, Miami, FL
“Painted Light,” Artists’ Choice Museum, New York, traveling to Reading Museum, Waterville, ME; Butler Institute, OH
“158th Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York
“Art Awards, 1983 Exhibition,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
“American Still Life, 1945-1983,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1981
“An Appreciation of Realism,” Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
“Some Landscapes,” Andover Gallery, Andover, MA
“Painterly Realism,” Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
“American Contemporary Paintings,” World’s Fair, Knoxville, Tennessee, organized by the Southern Arts Federation “Still Life/ Interiors,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

1980
“Sunlight on Leaves, The Impressionist Tradition,” Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX
“Collector’s Gallery X,” Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
“Contemporary American Realism Since 1960,” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1979
“Originals; American Women Artists,” Graham Gallery, New York
“Still Life Today,” Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York
“Selections from the Fischbach Gallery, 1980,” State University of New York, Cortland, NY
“The Artist in the Park,” Hirschl and Adler Gallery, New York
“1940-1980, Forty Years of Funding to the Artists in Virginia,” Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
“The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

1978
“Hans Hofmann as Teacher: His Students’ Drawings,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Painterly Realism,” Texas Art Center, Waco, TX
“Women,” Harold Reed Gallery, New York
“Recent Acquisitions,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Twentieth-Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York
“Artists’ Choice Museum,” Kornblee Gallery, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York

1977
“Photographs by Painters,” Los Angeles County Museum, CA
“Recent Acquistions,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
“Painterly Realism,” Watson/ de Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX
“Artists’ Sketchbooks,” Women’s Interart Center, New York

1976
“Childe Hassam Fund Exhibition,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York “Close to Home,” Geness Gallery, New York
“Artists’ Choice,” Soho Gallery, New York
“25th Anniversary,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

1973
“Frank O’Hara, A Poet Among Painters,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Works by Women from the Ciba-Geigy Collection,” Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University Gallery, Lansing , MI
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1972
“The Artist and the American Land, A.M. Sachs Gallery
“Contemporary American Watercolors,” Bard College
“Ciba-Geigy Collection,” University of Texas at Austin
“A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land,” Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1970
“The Fifties Re-Visited,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

1968
“Frank O’Hara Memorial Exhibition,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“The Humanist Tradition in Contemporary American Painting,” New School Art Center 1967-75 National Institute of Arts and Letters exhibitions (1967, 1970, 1974, 1975)

1967
“Contemporary Still Life,” Circulating Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York
“The American Landscape: A Living Tradition,” Peridot Gallery
“Figurative Painting in the Fifties,” Schoelkopt Gallery

1966
“American Painting,” Cincinnati Art Museum
“The American Flower,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York “Contemporary Art, USA,” Norfolk Museum, VA
“The Peacetower,” Los Angeles, CA
“Recent Still Life,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI St. John’s Academic Freedom Benefit

1965
“Drawing Regional,” The Gallery of Modern Art, New York
“American Illustrated Books 1945-65,” The Groiler Club, New York
“The Natural Vision,” Lever House Gallery
“Selections from Permanent American Collection,” Riverside Museum, New York

1964
“American Landscapes,” Byron Gallery
“Cross Section of Contemporary Art,” Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN “West Side Artists,” the Riverside Museum, New York
“Drawings,” Westerly Gallery

1963
“Hans Hofmann and His Students,” Museum of Modern Art, New York “Painting Ten Years Ago,” East Hampton Gallery, NY
“Landscapes,” Osborne Gallery
Trinity School, Bridge Gallery, Horizon Gallery, Rockport, Massachusetts

1962
“Figures,” Kornblee Gallery “Invitational Show,” Frumkin Galery
“157th Annual,” Pennsylvania Academy, PA

1961
“Creative Process” and “Recent Drawings,” New School Art Center, New York “The Figure Then and Now,” Visual Arts Gallery, New York
“Collector’s Graphics,” Peridot Gallery
James Gallery; Texas State Bank; SANE exhibition

1960
“American Still Life Painting,” Peridot Gallery “Drawings,” Padawer
“Fifth Hallmark Award,” Wildenstein Gallery
“A New Folder – Poems and Drawings,” Donnell Library
Nonagon Gallery; James Gallery; Westerly Gallery, Smolin Gallery
1960s “Art in the White House Program,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1959
“ART: USA: 59,” New York Coliseum Graham Gallery, New York
Carillon, Richmond, VA
“Neysa McMein Award Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1958
“First Provincetown Art Festival,” MA
Camino Gallery; Fleishman Gallery; Tanager Gallery, New York

1957
“Theatre Art,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
“21 American Artists,” Poindexter Gallery, New York
“The Figure,” Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
“6th Annual,” Stable Gallery, New York
Camino Gallery; James Gallery; Whitney Museum Annual, New York; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT;
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Toledo Museum of Art, OH

1956
“Drawings, Watercolors, and Small Oils,” Poindexter Gallery, New York
“66th Annual,” University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
“Ten American Painters,” Wagner College, Staten Island, NY “Recent Drawings, U.S.A.,” Museum of Modern Art, New York

1955
“Fourth Annual Exhibition,” Stable Gallery; “Ten American Painters,” opening show of the Poindexter Gallery, New York “U.S. Painting: Some Recent Directions,” Stable Gallery, New York

1954
Stable Gallery, “Third Annual Exhibition,” Tanager Gallery, New York

1952
“Virginia Artists, 1953,” Virginia Museum; Virginia Intermount College, Bristol; “148th Annual Exhibition,”
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

1951
“Virginia Artists, 1951,” Virginia Museum

1950
Gallery 35 at The Art Club, six painters – N. Blaine, P. Kahn, A. Kresch, R. De Niro, L. Rivers, H. Daum

1949
“New Talent,” Laurel Gallery

1948
Chinese Gallery (Harold Wacker); Arts & Crafts Club Annual, St. Louis, MO

1947-49
American Abstract Artists group traveling show, U.S.

1947
“The Jane Street Group,” galerie neuf

1945-49
Jane Street Gallery annual group shows, New York

1945
“The Women,” Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century Gallery; 67 Gallery Group (Howard Putzel),
group included Hofmann and Rothko; Watercolor exhibition Virginia Museum

1944-53
Biennials at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

1941
“Tenth Annual Richmond Artist’s Exhibition,” The Academy of Arts & Sciences, Richmond, VA
“Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Watercolor & Drawings,” Art Institute of Chicago, IL National Print & Drawing Show, Laguna Beach Art Association, CA

Select Collections

Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Art Students League, New York
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, MA
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
College Art Gallery, State University of New York at New Paltz
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Essex Institute, Salem, MA
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Hudson River State Hospital, Poughkeepsie, NY
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Museo Civico e Gallerie d’Arte, Udine, Italy
Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA
Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
University of Connecticut Foundation, Storrs, CT
Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT

Grants and Fellowships

1976
Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants

1974
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1973
Rothko Foundation Grant

1970
Longview Grants

1966
Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants

1964
Longview Grants
Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants

1946
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowships

1943
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowships

Awards and Honors

1996
Received Lee Krasner Award from Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Leslie Cheek Award for Outstanding Presentation in the Arts from the College of William and Mary

1990
Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1987
“First Alumni Award,” Virginia Commonwealth University

1986
Honor Award for Achievement in the Visual Arts, Women’s Caucus for Art, Annual conference, New York
Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, 161st Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York

1985
Academician, National Academy of Design, New York
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

1982
Academician-Elect, National Academy of Design, New York
Emil and Dines Carlsen Award for Best Still Life, National Academy of Design, New York

1980
Honorary Doctorate, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1979
First Governor’s Award for the Arts in Richmond, Virginia

1975
National Endowment for the Arts

1972
Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) Grant

1964
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

1962
Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants

1960
Hallmark International Award Collection

1958
Neysa McMein Purchase Award, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

1957
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

1957
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire

1945
First Prize, Watercolor, Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences

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Freckelton, Sondra, Women in the Visual Arts, Roanoke, Virginia, Hollins College, 1996
McVetta, Lee Ryan, “A Stylistic Analysis of Rhythm in Nell Blaine’s Painting, 1942-1959,” master’s thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1996
Marquardt -Cherry, Janet, Nothing Overlooked: Women Painting Still Life, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, 1995 Sawin, Martica, Paintings by Nell Blaine from the Arthur W. Cohen Collection, exhibition catalogue, New York, Tibor de Nagy
Gallery, 1995
Stern, Robert A.M., Thomas Mellins and David Fishman, New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism between the Second World
War and the Bicentennial, The Monacelli Press, 1995, p. 1165
Smith, Roberta, “Precisely Cultivating a Lively Garden,” The New York Times, April 21, 1995
Perl, Jed, “New York Diarist: Openings,” The New Republic, May 22, 1995
Heller, Jules, and Nancy G. Heller, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, A Biographical Dictionary, Garland
Publishing, Inc., New York & London, 1995
Brown, Eric, “Creating a Glowing Order,” Upper West Side Resident, April 15, 1993
Gussow, Alan, The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism, Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, 1993
Smith, Roberta, “Nell Blaine,” The New York Times, April 5, 1991
“Nell Blaine,” short review, New Yorker, April 15, 1991
Beem, Edgar Allen, “Drawn to Gloucester,” Yankee, June, 1991
Cohen, Ronny, “Nell Blaine,” Art Forum, Summer, 1991
Bellamy, Peter, The Artist Project, Portraits of the Real Art World, 1981 –1990, IN Publishing, New York, 1991
Perl, Jed, Gallery Going, Four Seasons in the Art World, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San Diego, New York, London, 1991 Arthur, John, American Realism & Figurative Art: 1952 – 1990, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan, and others, 1991
Pisano, Ronald G., Long Island Landscape Painting, Volume II: The Twentieth Century , Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Co.,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1990
Piercy, Marge, and Nell Blaine, The Earth Shines Secretly, A Book of Days, Zoland Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990
Van Gelder, Pat, “Close to Home,” American Artist, February, 1990
LeGendre, Lyn, “Poet Marge Piercy, Painter Nell Blaine Combine Talents on a ‘Book of Days,’” North Shore Magazine, Gloucester
Daily Times, August 16, 1990
Gardiner, Ginnie, “Nell Blaine’s Wild Space,” Art/ World, April – May 27, 1989
Seggerman, Helen-Louise, “Letter from New York, The Fischbach Gallery,” Tableau, Amsterdam, Holland, March, 1989
Daniel, David, “In the Galleries,” Art and Antiques, Summer, 1989
Hirsh, David, “Paint and an Open View, Nell Blaine Talks about Her Art,” New York Native, May 1, 1989
Safran, Rose, “Nell Blaine’s Art is Inspired by Her Garden,” North Shore Magazine, Gloucester Daily Times, July 6, 1989 Kramer, Hilton, “’Art for Art’s Sake’ Show an Apt Finale for Ingber Gallery,” The New York Observer, July 17 – 24, 1989
Sica, Connie, “Invincible Summer – Painter Nell Blaine,” The Sag Harbor Express, July 12, 1989
Ashbery, John, Reported Sightings, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989
Baseman, Andrew, The Scarf, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, New York, 1989
Arthur, John, Spirit of Place. Contemporary Landscape Painting & The American Tradition, Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Co.,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1989
Art Goings On, “Cape Ann Master on Display Again,” Gloucester Daily Times, p. B1, Thursday, March 17, 1988
Finch, Christopher, Twentieth-Century Watercolors, (New York: Abbeville Press), 1988
Profiles in the Arts, National Endowment of the Arts, Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Perl, Jed, “The Shows Must Go On,” The New Criterion, September 1987, Vol. 6, No. 1
Sydney, Clare, Flower Painting, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1986
Nell Blaine Sketchbook, preface by John Ashbery, The Arts Publisher Inc., New York, printed in Verona, Italy by Martino
Mardersteig on Tintoretto paper, Limited edition, 1986
Zimmer, William, “Lyrical Visions: 10 Women Artists,” (review) The New York Times, September, 14 1986
Raynor, Vivien, “Nell Blaine,” (review) The New York Times, April 12, 1985
Teplow, Joshua, “Communicating via Atmosphere,” Artspeak, Vol. VI, No. 15, April 16, 1985
Hunnewell, Richard F., “Callahan, Blaine, Leigh, Villiet, Vagliano,” Art/ World, April 17 – May 17, 1985
American Realism, Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, text by Alvin Martin, forward
by Henry T. Hopkins, Introduction by Glenn C. Janss, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., New York, 1985
Marks, Claude, World Artists 1950-1980, H.W. Wilson Company, 1984
Agar, Eunice, “Watercolor Painting Techniques,” American Artist, February, 1983
Henry, Gerrit, “Nell Blaine,” (review) Art in America, November, 1983
Sawin, Martica, “Nell Blaine,” Woman’s Art Journal, Spring/ Summer, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1982
Merritt, Robert, “Nell Blaine Finds Passion in Painting,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 2, 1982
Proctor, Roy, “Nell Blaine’s Rainbow,” Richmond News Leader, May 1, 1982
Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Artists From Early Indian Times to the Present, G.K. Hall & Company, Boston and
Avon Books, New York, 1982
Collins, Roy, “Cause for Celebration: Nell Blaine in Boston,” Rhode Island Review, June, 1981
Goodyear, Jr., Frank H., Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, New York Graphic society in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1981
Sheffield, Margaret, “Nell Blaine, Gwen John,” Art/ World, April 18 – May 16, 1981
Berman, Avis, “A Decade of Progress, But Could a Female Chardin Make a Living?” ARTnews, October, 1980 Bourdon, David, “Art: Paintings of Gardens,” Architectural Digest, June, 1980
Rosenzweig, Phyllis, The Fifties: Aspects of Paintings in New York, Washington, D.C., 1980, Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Press
Goldsmith, Lawrence C., Watercolor: Bold and Free, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1980
Munro, Eleanor, Originals: American Women Artists, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979
Tallmer, Jerry, “Colors Almost Too Beautiful,” New York Post, January, 1979, (Jane Freilicher review with reference to Blaine) Durden, Sue Dickinson, “Nell Blaine, The High Priestess of Light, Color,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 22, 1979
Review, Art/ World (by B.K.), April 20 – May 5 issue, 1979
Ashbery, John, “Icing on the Divine Cake,” New York, May 7, 1979
Bass, Ruth, “Nell Blaine,” (review) ARTnews, May, 1979
Sawin, Martica, “Abstract Roots of Contemporary Representation,” Arts, June, 1976
Hopf, Christine, In Praise of Women Artists ’76, San Francisco, California, Bo-Tree Productions, 1975
Bryant, Edward, “Nell Blaine,” Nell Blaine (exhibition catalog), Hamilton, New York, Picker Gallery, Colgate University, 1974 Cochrane, Diane, “The Teachings of Hans Hofmann,” American Artist, March, 1974
Shirey, David L., “Nell Blaine’s Cheerful Palette at the Parrish Museum,” The New York Times, July 21, 1974
Preston, Malcolm, “Joyous Impressions,” Newsday , July 31, 1974
Four Poems by Howard Griffith, illustrations, 1975
Campbell, Lawrence, “Nell Blaine,” Nell Blaine (exhibition catalog), Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1973 Mikotajuk, Andrea, “Nell Blaine,” Arts, February, 1973
Schwartz, Sanford, “New York Letter,” Art International, February, 1973
Cochrane, Diane, “Nell Blaine: High Wire Painting,” American Artist, August, 1973
Klassen, Kathryn, “Palettable Promenades…,” Holiday, September, 1973
Green, Barbara, “City Native Pays Rare Visit…,” The Richmond News Leader, November 20, 1973
Canaday, John, “Art: Sparkling Vigor in Blaine Work,” The New York Times, December 2, 1972
Gussow, Alan, A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land, New York, Friends of the Earth and Saturday Review Press, 1972 Campbell, Lawrence, “Nell Blaine,” ARTnews, September, 1970
Mellow, James R., “The Flowering Summer of Nell Blaine,” The New York Times, October 11, 1970
Gruen, John, “Galleries & Museums: Nell Blaine,” New York Magazine, October 12, 1970
Henry, Gerrit, “New York,” Art International, November, 1970
Selle, Carol O., “Larry Rivers: Drawings 1949-1969. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1970
Campbell, Lawrence, Untitled Review, ARTnews, December, 1970
Shuyler, James, The View from 210 Riverside Drive,” ARTnews, May, 1968
Ashbery, John, “Nell Blaine,” ARTnews, April, 1966